eat

Other forms of eat

past tense or participle

ate

past tense or participle

eaten

present participle

eating·

third person

eats·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about eat

What does eat mean?

eat means "take in solid food". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eat?

eat has 1 syllable: eat. In IPA it is /ˈit/.

What is another word for eat?

Close synonyms include feed, eat on, consume, eat up, use up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eat a common word?

eat is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with eat?

2 words rhyme with eat. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.